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Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State
David C. Oh, Editor
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Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism, refers to discrimination based on any kind of "human category." Explaining Korea's relationship to difference and its practices of othering, including in media culture, requires new language and nuance in English-language scholarship.
This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the "other," taking into account the nation's postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated construction of self. "Anthrocategorism," a more nuanced translation of injongchabyeol, is proffered as a new framework for understanding difference in ways that are locally meaningful in a society and media system in which racial or even ethnic differences are not the most salient. The collection points to the construction of racial others that elevates, tolerates, and incorporates difference; the construction of valued and devalued ethnic others; and the ambivalent construction of co-ethnic others as sympathetic victims or marginalized threats.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other
1. Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness
2. Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television
3. The Televised Korean Dream
4. Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: The South Korean films Rosa and Thuy
5. Two Sides of the “Other”
Part 2: Mediating the Co-ethnic Other
6. “Truth? No One Cares about the Truth”
7. Staging North Korean Defections
8. Enemy of the State
9. Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan
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